Quique Sánchez Flores He has chosen the early hours of this Wednesday to explain many things about his recently completed stage at Sevilla. Just days after he was in charge of the team in that last duel against Barcelona, the man from Madrid wanted to speak at length in COPE about several of the most relevant topics of Sevilla’s current affairs, such as his departure, the future of Sergio Ramos or if he considers that the club is out of danger even though it has already been saved, in the event that there could be a relegation next season.
«I leave very light, with my duty fulfilled and with the feeling that I have taken off a lot of weight. The moment I sign for Sevilla you assume an enormous responsibility. I feel a huge weight on my shoulders, because I know what the history of Sevilla is like. I have lived this city. I feel many souls in Seville. Many people who saw me on the street or in the hotel hugged me or cried. That, even if there are six… is a very big responsibility on a very short piece of land. A terrain with little room for reaction, and in a very depersonalized terrain, because you go to a rescue plan, and a rescue plan denaturalizes everyone,” the former Nervion coach admitted first.
About Ramos, on the nightly program Game time from the aforementioned station, Quique was not entirely optimistic about the fate of the camero next year. At least he does not paint in Nervión, as Quique Sánchez Flores can read between the lines: «I’m not sure. He loves Sevilla very much, I think there is a part of him that asks him to continue, but I think he does not want to be part of a catastrophic scenario. Either he senses that things will be done very well, or else… He has to sense that things are going to go well,” he reiterated.
In those same terms, Quique clarified what he meant by such a discouraging context: «I hope not (regarding a possible relegation in the future). Clubs, when they have a goring like this year’s, in the end it is a warning. I am convinced that the destiny of the leaders is very different from what we have experienced this year. AND they want to prepare another ideology which has nothing to do with this one. Now, they are subject to certain conditions: wage bill… which will lead them to make difficult decisions.
Asked about the ‘divorce’ with Ivan Rakitic, the coach told it in the following way: «I was very direct with Ivan. When I arrive I have two conversations with Ivan on the field after training, where he gives me his point of view of the season’s journey, which I thank him for, because he gives me his point of view. When we played a very important Copa del Rey match against Atlético, a single match, he came on in the 55th minute and we finished 1-0. The next day, he comes into my office, and very politely and respectfully tells me: “Mister, I see that you don’t count on me and it’s better that you know it.” And I told him: «No, I do count, but I don’t see any player who is in an extraordinary moment, neither do you, and right now for me it depends: Sometimes you will play at the beginning, sometimes in the middle, sometimes at the end. What I do ask of you is that you help me as captain. Help me because it is a situation in which we are going to need the mentoring of the wisest people, or at least those who have the most experience. Well, he left the office, he would meditate, and the next day, in my office, he told me that the players had to recognize when we are no longer there for certain things, and I think I should leave. Well, absolute respect, it’s your decision. And people have to know it,” he concluded.
2024-05-28 23:01:07
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